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Initial impression - a very smooth lemon. It's a clean scent, and doesn't feel dark to me at all. It's similar to Delousing Powder only in that it has a citrusy edge to it: where Delousing Powder was caustic and powdery, Murder of Crows is like a sheet of lemon glass. I agree with cuervosueno; this is not what I was expecting from crows.

I never thought I'd like a pumpkin caramel chocolate blend...but omg. On me, caramel usually turns to burnt sugar, cream turns to rancid butter, and all the BPAL chocolate scents turn to dusty stale cheap hot chocolate mix. Pumpkin III, however, somehow smells like hazelnut (almost typed "hazelbut") coffee on me. Later, when it's dry, I get a very creamy light pomegranate - sweet and juicy but hardly overwhelming. III might fight off Pumpkin V as my favorite of the Plunder this year!

I plan to add them back in as I can. I tend to update the spreadsheet right after the updates are released, so there's a gap between then and when the reviews are available. You do an awesome job! Thanks for all of the updates. I updated the TAL section (and then posted it on the LJ Sin and Salvation community since the forum was down), but here you go if you want it handy: http://www.paintballcity.org/paintball/Lis...AL%20update.xls I wasn't trying to steal your thunder, I just got OCD about organizing my TALs one night when I couldn't seem to fall asleep. None are linked to the reviews, since it drives me nuts as I'm apt to inadvertently touch pad onto them and open a browser tab. Yes, I'm special like that. Oh, SWEET. I'll add your TAL edits to my master copy; that was the one section whose accuracy I wasn't sure about. Thanks! Edit: Updated with Beaver Moon, and includes LupaWolf's TAL fixes! I'm adding a column for the review URLs; those of us who dislike inadvertently clicking them can either remove the column entirely if desired, and those who enjoy having the review URLs easily accessible will have them. Hopefully I'll get those up by next major update. $deity help me if I'll have to find and paste in more than the 1215 reviews already in existence...

I haven't personally tried it yet, but Imp is peach with amber and golden musk - might be perfect for your resiny tastes.

Me too. He says they all smell the same to him. He recognizes and likes Smut, though.

I plan to add them back in as I can. I tend to update the spreadsheet right after the updates are released, so there's a gap between then and when the reviews are available.

I wasn't expecting rose out of the herbal almond notes I detected in the imp, but lo and behold, I definitely had roses on my arms once it dried. It's the rose that's in Rose Moon - a softer, almost powdery, floral. I'll have to test its "effectiveness" at another time.

Um, am I blind, or did the Voodoo Blends subforum go missing from the Reviews section? Edit: Nevermind - found them all in Bewitching Brews. I forgot Beth moved them there.

Me too! I put the new things at the bottom in a group so they can easily be copied into your own version without having to redo the color coding for everything.

For those of you who do use the spreadsheet, it's updated! All the new stuff's (including Bat's Day, Crypt Queen and the Inquisition) at the bottom of the BPAL tab, and I included the massage oils, nail polishes, and limited edition soaps on the BPTP tab.

Imp: A very bright smoky blend. It's like looking through a golden haze. Wet: Creamy spicy orange blossom. I have no idea where the orange is coming from. Priala's cinnamon is very much like that in a good cinnamon candy - red and spicy, but not plasticky or fake. Dry: It's so incredibly warm. The cinnamon and smoke are really prevalent, but the myrrh keeps them from being too hot or dry. After 10 minutes, my nose is burning because I keep pressing it to my wrist to inhale deeply. Must stop that. :stick: After 15 minutes, it's a rich, deep resiny smoke. The spice and flame disappear and it's more of a smolder. This might be one of my favorite cinnamon blends yet and I'll have to get a bottle before CD disappears.

"loli"? Lollipops? Jailbait, for sure. Treat #1 if you can get your hands on it. Alcohol - Swank, or Twenty-One. My "I am woman, I am Goddess" scent is Magdalene.

I think I may amp carnation, but Alice smelled wrong even in the imp, lol. Maybe I just hate the smell. Slightly OT: People who *do* normally amp carnation - how do you find Zarita? I amp carnation, usually, and Zarita was all white flowers, which on me means soap. I didn't get much of any carnation from the little Doll Girl.

Nope, but Two, Five & Seven is a greener rose on me. That "itty-bitty bit of green grass" is more like sitting next to the only rose bush in a huge yard of freshly cut grass.

I don't think you have to be a true foody, no. Most foody scents turn kinda blah on me (vanilla? Powder. Caramel/butter/cream/milk? Rancid. Chocolate? Moth balls. Seriously.), but pumpkin and its spices are gorgeous. Jack is the only pumpkin scent I've tried that's buttery at first, but it fades so quickly into beautiful juicy peach and apple over warm pumpkin.

Penny Dreadful's a pretty good library scent, even though it has florals - the wood in it makes me think of libraries. Still not a strict "library" scent, though it's one I love. What about Dee? MiskU is more of a coffeehouse scent, to me. Cathedral, or the Cracked Bell?

Ultimate soft rose: Have you tried Lucy's Kiss or London? Neither is as in-your-face as Rose Red; they're both tea roses. Moon Rose, too, though the nighttime flowers killed that one for me. I want the ultimate honey scent that doesn't turn wonky on me. I want it to smell like mead or supersweet clover honey, not beeswax. Honey Moon was close. Honey SN was closer. Neither was my perfect honey scent. Dark chocolate and merlot. Ginger and honey. Vanilla bean ice cream.

Alice with Katharina, perhaps? I haven't tried layering them to reproduce Bakeneko, but Katharina has the orange blossom, and Alice has the lovely spicy tea. Actually, I should try that if I still have an imp of Katharina lying around...I'll need to mimic Bakeneko eventually too!

It's sweet without being sticky and candy-like. I get a lot of aloe. If this scent had a color, it'd be pale green. It's very pretty - reminds me a lot of Tamamo no Mae.

Imp: Very creamy and yet bright. Wet: Perfect white florals, without threatening to turn to soap - kind of amazing! Dry: Nondescript florals. Soft and pretty, but nothing I'd wear. It's definitely chaste. Nothing offensive or sharp about this one!

Imp: Sweet florals Wet: Wow, that's freesia. I don't smell rose at all yet. As far as florals go, it's a very clean, white fragrance. Very smooth and almost creamy. Fresh and sweet. Dry: Blaaaaaaaah! Lotus. It's a little sour and definitely still not roses. Oh well, I have Rose Red to keep me happy. If you don't like florals, this scent is not for you. It's like the Queen's garden, blended up with a little cream.

Imp: It's nothing crisp or clean or icy. I'm really not sure I want to put it on my skin, to be honest. Wet: Dove soap, amped to the extreme. It's very clean, but almost literally, like I've had my entire olefactory system washed out. Dry: Just white soap. I don't know if it's just a "winter" scent mutual hatred, or if there's something in Beth's winter blends that my skin corrupts, but nothing that's supposed to smell icy has in fact smelled like winter to me - except Black Ice, and Tulzscha comes very close to smelling like ice. ...and here comes the sinus headache.

Imp: Very woodsy, clearly the sweetness of sandalwood. Wet: Still very much sandalwood. Nothing sweet coming out yet. Dry: Oh WOW. This suddenly transformed into frosting. How did Beth make sandalwood frosting? It even smells like the dry peaks of frosting - that sort of fragile powder scent from meringue? - much more so than oversweet globs of wet sugar concoctions. I'm not really getting any rum out of it, though the sandalwood seems to be dominating everything, even the vanilla -- a nice change for my skin chemistry, which likes to amp vanilla to extremes. It's very pretty, even if it wasn't what I was expecting.

(I honestly don't know which version this is. I received it in a swap, and it has a very cute custom label with "Decant by Korshka" noted.) Imp: for the first time, I can smell every single note listed. The grapefruit is the last thing you're left with, a very sharp crisp note. The vanillas are laced pretty heavily with the two florals, neither more prominent than the other. Wet: Hm, the jasmine and grapefruit are coming through much more now. They're very sour and demanding attention. They're not a good combination on me, unfortunately. Dry: For once, my skin didn't amp vanilla. It's turned into all jasmine, and the grapefruit is still hanging around. It's starting to smell very strongly of cleaning solution.

Imp: Pungent musk. Wet: The sage is nice and deep, and I keep getting wafts of grape. I can picture a forest sprite with a wreath of twined branches and fruits spilling out of pockets. The musk/civet makes me twitch a bit, though. It's very strong and a little too malodorous and animalistic for what I'm otherwise finding to be a very nice forest scent. If not for the civet, it might have been the only forest blend I can wear. Dry: Mothballs. Wow. Completely overpowering.